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Short answer: who is the speaker of "Church Going", and what is his attitude to religious belief?
Think of the cycle-clips, the confession in stanza 3 and the last stanza.
Reference to context: read the closing lines of stanza 2 (lines 16 to 18). What does the speaker do at the door, and what does he decide about his visit?
Look at what he does at the door and at the closing line of the stanza.
Which command word asks you to weigh more than one view before reaching a conclusion?
It is the command word that invites a debate.
What is the best way to show your knowledge of the poem without long quotation?
Think of giving directions rather than reading out the whole map.
Put these five events in the order in which they occur in the poem and give the stanza of each: (a) the speaker admits that he often stops at churches; (b) the speaker removes his cycle-clips; (c) the speaker pictures the church as an overgrown ruin; (d) the speaker signs the visitors' book; (e) the speaker says that the church answers a lasting hunger to be serious.
Think of the four stages: visit, turn, speculation, conclusion.
Compare the presentation of a solitary speaker in a quiet place in "Church Going" and in Ted Hughes's "The Thought Fox", in about 150 words.
Give two similarities and two differences, and refer to the setting, the voice, the movement of the poem and the ending.
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